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dog's bane
(Apocynum androsæmifolium.) The common name of a shrub, which grows along the road-side and borders ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Bane
·noun Destruction; death.
II. Bane ·noun A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
III. Bane ·n...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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dogs
To go to the dogs. To go to destruction; to be ruined, destroyed, or devoured.--Johnson.
Had whol...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dogs
The last supports knocked away at the launching of a ship.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Leopard's bane
·- A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana, Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Libbard's bane
·- Leopard's bane.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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flea-bane
(Erigeron Canadense.) One of the most hardy and common weeds. It propagates itself rapidly, and sinc...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Dog's-ear
·noun The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's-tongue
·noun Hound's-tongue.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's Head
In Aldersgate Street (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's portion
A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer o...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's rig
To copulate till you are tired, and then turn tail to it.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's soup
Rain water.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's wife
Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's tongue
n.
name given to the plant Cynoglossum suaveolens, R. Br., N.O. Asperifoliae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dog's-body
Dried pease boiled in a cloth.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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dog's tail
A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fog-dogs
Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the wea...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ring-dogs
Iron implements for hauling timber along: made by connecting two common dogs by a ring through the e...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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sling-dogs
In timber lifting, a dog is an iron implement with a fang at one end, and an eye at the other, in wh...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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boke and bane
lusty and strong. N. and Y.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Dog's-tail grass
·noun A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is we...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's Head in the Pot
A shop called the Dogges Hedde in the potte in parish of St. Peter in Cheap, 4 Ed. VI. 1550 (Lond. I...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dog's Head and Pottage-Pot Court
Out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.